Nursing
Happy Certified Nurses Day to all the OCN®, AOCN®, APHN, APRN-BC, RN-BC, CCRN®, and all the many other certified nurses who rock healthcare! I have held my certification (OCN®) for five years now, and I have enjoyed the sense of... Read More
This is part six of the Nursing Research Challenge. The Article: Valente, S. (2011). Rapid cycle change projects improve quality of care. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 26(1): 54-60. Big Idea: Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) is a national... Read More
Since I awoke Friday morning to the news of the 8.9 earthquake in Japan, I cannot shake the thoughts of our Japanese nursing colleagues. I have said many prayers for them as they live and work through this and ongoing... Read More
This is part five of the Nursing Research Challenge. The Article: Trinkoff, A., Johantgen, M., Storr, C., Gurses, A., Liang, Y., & Han, K. (2011). Nurses’ work schedule characteristics, nurse staffing, and patient mortality. Nursing Research, 60(1): 1-8. The Big... Read More
This is part four of the Nursing Research Challenge. While this article is not a research article, as a case study, it is a form of evidence. The Article: Stefancyk, A. (2009). Transforming care at the bedside: One-hour, off-unit meal breaks.... Read More
A recent article about robots in the operating room piqued my interest. I am a fan of new technologies, but the terminology used throughout the article bothered me. The robots were coined “robotic scrub nurses.” Excuse me? I highly value... Read More
You know what you’re in for when the charge nurse tells you, “Get your roller-skates on.” For those unfamiliar with the phrase, you can likely infer that it is going to be a busy day, so much so that walking... Read More
All this time I thought I – the nurse – was the artist, orchestrating a beautiful symphony of care and shaping programs into works of both form and function. As I spoke with a colleague about yesterday’s post, I divulged... Read More
I held her head forward as she vomited blood time and time again. All I managed to do otherwise was look at her frightened husband and say, “Mr. K., hold her hand.” He did. I started my night shift... Read More
A recent story of a dress code policy impacting Ottawa nurses has me thinking about planning again. In short, a hospital implemented a new dress code designed to make it easier for patients to identify nurses from other hospital staff.... Read More